String-fastener



E. W. S. GAY.

STRING FASTENEB. I APPLICATION FILED MAY 2|. I917- RENEWED AUG. 14' I919- 1,330,256. I Patehted Feb. 10,1920.

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STBING-FASTENER.

v Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed May 21, 1917, Serial No. 169,959. Renewed August, 1919.- Serial No. 817,589.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EMIL W. S. GAY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Roxbury, in the county of Suffolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new a the said Up, the string clamping ferrule and useful Im rovements in String-Famed ers, of which t e following is a speclfication,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings. I

The object of this invention is to provide simple and effective means for fastening and the like, around bundles and more particularly for fastening the otherwise free end portion of a shoe string;

the operation of my said fastener being such that a single lacing may be used and the tying and untying of knots is entirely avoided.

Briefly described my invention comprlses a small clamp which is secured to the end of the string, forming in effect a tip for said string, and a spring clamp operating as a receiver for a bight of the string as well as for the tip, the construction and operation of the co-acting parts being such that when the string has been drawn taut around a bundle, or throu h the eyelets of the shoe, as the case may. e, the string is locked in its strained or taut position, and this desirable result is accomplished instantly by simply wedging the tip into the. clamping receiver. I

In order to explain my invention clearly I have provided the annexed drawings," in which Figures 1 to 9-both inclusive, illustrate one embodiment of my improved construction and Figs. 10 to 19 both inclusive, illusseated therein the tip member. Fig. 2 is a side view of said receiver, Flg. 3 1s a top view and Fig. 4 is an underside view of the same. In Fig. 5 I have illustrated the tip member complete and in Figs. 6, 7 and 8 I have shown the three parts of the said tip separated; Fig. 7 being in central, longitudinal section. Fig. 9 is an end view of the tip section of Flg. 8.

Fig. 10 is a side elevation of my preferred form of receiver and Fig. 11 is an end view of the same. Fig. 12 is a plan view of the receiver of Fig. 10 and Fig. 13'is a central, longitudinal, sectional view of the same.

Fig. 14 is a transverse, sectional view taken of 'tip- 'seated in said receiver.

is bored and tapped to receive at one of its ends. the tip member which is threaded exinto the cone until its pointed end portion on the. 1ine,14 14 of said Fig. 13. In Fig.

15 have illustrated the recelver in section, as m Flg. 13, and have shown another form Fig.- 16 illustrates, by a partial side view member being shown in section.

Fig. 17 is a side view of the metal tip proper.

Figs. 18 and 19 are relatively enlarged views of the clamping ferrule, Fig. 18 showing the same in longitudinal section and 'Fig. 1.9 showing particularly the milled circumferential exterior of the said ferrule.

Referring to these drawings the numeral 25 indicates a receiver formed of resilient sheet material having upturned sides 26-27 which may serve to clasp a metal tip 28, as seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The flat end portions of the receiver are perforated, as here illustrated, in order that the receiver may be stitched or eyeleted, to the upper of a shoe. The tip 28 is formed in its mid portion as a truncated cone 28 which (when the tip and receiver are assembled) lies in an opening 29 in the bottom plate of the receiver, the base of the cone providing an ofiset shoulder which prevents the accidental separation of the tip and receiver. The tip is formed of three separable members to wit the tip proper 28, the herein truncated cone member 28 and the stringclamping ferrule member 30. The cone 28 teriorly as. at 28{ and to receive at its other end the exteriorly threaded end of the ferrule 30, and the tip member 28 is also formed with a oi-nted inner end 28 which extends throug the cone into the ferrule when the several parts are assembled.

When the tip thus described is to be attached to the end of a string as, for example, to the end of a shoe lacing, the ferrule 30 is first screwed into the cone 28 and the end of the lacing is tucked into the ferrule until tliefferrule is practically filled with the lacing. The tip member is then screwed 28 engages and is forced into the soft material of the lacing, resulting in firmly wedging and clamping the lacing in the ferrule, as will perhaps be better understood if reference is made to Fig. 16 of the drawi Figs. 12 to 19 the device illustrated difl'ersbut little from that which I have of three as I have descri just described. The receiver, however, is formed with indents 31 which, in efl'ectprovide ribs which cooperate with curvilinear or ball-like enlargements.3233 on thetip member.

Said tip member, as seen in Figs. 15, 16

all detailslto the embodiments of the invenand 17 is formed of two arts only instead with Figs. 1 and 5 but the operation of the complete device to wit the'receiver and the In operating the said device the tip is secured t0 the end of the lacing as described. After the string has been laced up (assuming that the device is being used with a shoe lacing) the end portion of the string is carried around the ankle of thewearer and laid in the bottom of the receiver 25,'the said receiver being secured to the upper 0f the shoe. The tip 28 is then forced endwise into the receiver until the base of the cone enters the opening, 2-9 or until the balls 3233 pass the indents 31, as the case may be. This action not only clamps the tip in place in the receiver but at the same time, clamps the bight of the string, which lays d in connection along the place.

Thus am able to read-i1 secure the string end without-having to ot the string as is now commonly done. i

Obviously my invention is not limited in bottom ef the receiver, firmly in claim as "new and wishto secure by Letters Patent by the aid of. mj descr'ibeddeviee I '1. The improved 'tip for shoe laces consisting of an interiorly threadedtube, and an exterio'rly threaded double pointed tip memberadapted to be screwed into said tube. 5

2. In combination with a spr' elas ,'a

tip for shoe laces; said tip consisting 0 .an'

interiorly threaded tube member and an exteriorly threaded double pointed tip memmember adaptedv to lock the lace endthereto.

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